Good [Fall] Times

Here we are again...New Year...Same Me...Finally posting a LO from a picture I took the week of Thanksgiving...but who are we kidding?  This is what I've come to expect of me.  So much has happened in the first few weeks of 2024.  New puppy, two surgeries, I've been sick (of course), minor snow-pocalypse here in the south, etc.  But at least I had some time to craft last weekend and here is the result:

Over the week of Thanksgiving we had a few of Mr. Handsome's kiddos visit and the selfie/Snap princess herself wanted to snap a few selfies with me.  Great news for my crafting addiction hobby because I had some awesome fall colored stuff to use up in my ongoing effort to reduce the amount of craft supplies I have.  (Something tells me that this effort will never be complete)

Below you can see where I used some layered chipboard from Tres Jolie Kit Club.  The majority of items used on this LO were from a previous Tres Jolie scrapbook kit, but I honestly can't remember if the layered pine cones below were part of the kit I used.  To decorate the chipboard I used a combination of Lumiere paint (Metallic Rust and Halo Pink Gold) and some Tres Jolie crackle texture paste (copper). The pieces layer together so I made sure to use a few colors on the bottom piece that would stand out when I attached the top layer.

Below you can see a flower cluster with a few "extras."  In order to blend all the colors from the background papers, the flowers and the flowers I chose from my stash I splattered most of the LO, including the flower clusters, with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine spray in Peach.  I also dabbed lots of the the Halo Pink Gold paint around the LO and on the flowers for some added texture.

My other flower cluster, decorated in a similar fashion to the one above, along with some cheesecloth (best invention ever) and a few leaf and greenery pieces that were just hanging out on a random table in the craft room.  What were they intended to be used for?  We will never know, but they ended up on this project so we'll just stick with that plan! 😂

I also used a Tres Jolie chipboard frame around/on the photo.  The frame was much smaller than the picture, but there was a ton of "dead space" at the top of the photo, so I used that opportunity to use more flowers from my stash.  (By the way...if you're following I've been "trying to use more flowers from my stash" for 6 months now and the stash is not getting any smaller 😕)

So there you have it, first post of 2024, only a few weeks late, but again...are any of us really that surprised?  I'm pretty sure I'm done being sick for awhile...definitely done with surgery for awhile...and since it's the south we shouldn't see snow again for quite some time...so maybe this time will be different and I'll begin to post more often!  Till then...

xoxoxo

Mel